[Magdalen] Bullied?

[Jay Weigel]

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 8:11 PM Don Boyd <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Jay, do you assume that BTF (Before the Tree Fell) Governor Abbott's soul
> was pristine, generous, and/or kindly disposed toward any but his own
> kind?  AFIK No evidence to that effect has ever been adduced, and I believe
> that should any such evidence exist I would be aware of it as I live only a
> few miles from the Governor's Mansion.
> Sent from my iPod



> No, but I assume he at least had one, and it was alive, however small it
> may have been. We are all born with one, after all. It is now as I have
> said--black, shriveled, dead, and evil, and I ascribe that to the accident.
> Some people are enlarged by misfortune, like Tammy Duckworth and Gabby
> Giffords and even, to a great extent, Bob Dole and perhaps John McCain.
> Others become like Abbott. He *allowed* his to die. Perhaps, even, caused
> it to die.




> > On May 30, 2017, at 6:30 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am convinced that when that tree fell on Greg Abbott (now the governor
> of
> > Texas) and paralyzed him from the waist down, it also killed his soul.
> Such
> > an ugly, shriveled, black little thing I have not had the displeasure of
> > seeing in a human body.
> >
> > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> ... yeah, there is that. I was actually reacting to a radio speech of
> the
> >> TX Gov mansplaining that  IF the Legislature was reconvened, ONLY HE
> could
> >> call for that to happen AND he will choose ONLY those particular
> subjects
> >> (among 100s) that HE wants that were not settled in the regular session
> -
> >> top two will be the bathroom/Transgender bill - TX version -
> hystericiczed
> >> into a 'protect women' bill, and one of his other favorites that even
> the
> >> Republicans (in the vast majority of TX government) couldn't pass for
> him.
> >> Heretofore the TX Governor did not have this much power until Mr. Perry
> sat
> >> in Austin so long, he just kind of bullied his way into new social
> mores...
> >> previously the Lieutenant Governor was actually the power of the
> >> Legislature.  We have a conservative, former radio show host,
> radicalized
> >> by the original tea partiers in that role now.  It will be an
> interesting
> >> post legislature session.... The House Speaker here has actually done
> quite
> >> a nice runaround the Gov, on a number of issues, but that may not hold.
> >>
> >> Stay tooned. It'll be loony that's for sure.
> >>
> >> L
> >>
> >> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
> >>
> >> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
> not
> >> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
> me."
> >> attributed to Erma Bombeck
> >> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a
> talk
> >> by Richard Rohr
> >> "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom
> they
> >> oppress." F Douglass
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >> From: "ME Michaud" <michaudme at gmail.com>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 12:01 PM
> >> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Bullied?
> >>
> >>
> >> Lynn, I just saw the news item on your state legislature.
> >>>
> >>> The legislator who made the stupid threat claimed he was justified
> because
> >>> one demonstrator was carrying a sign that read "Illegal and here to
> stay."
> >>>
> >>> Which made me think:
> >>> let's sell (or give away) T-shirts !!!
> >>>
> >>> Like the King of Denmark, who appeared wearing a gold Star of David the
> >>> day
> >>> after the occupying army declared all Jews must, I'd wear a t-shirt
> that
> >>> said I was an illegal alien. If enough did, the cogs of ICE would be
> full
> >>> of sabots.
> >>> -M
> >>>
> >>> Lynn confused at the 21 century evoking the 19th...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
>
>